Clothes-boiler attachment



June 9 1925.

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CLOTHES-BOILER, ATTACHMENT.

App1ication filed January 21, 1924. Serial No. 687,459.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BLAKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at VVyandotte, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes- Boiler Attachments, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

After boiling clothes in an ordinary household boiler it is a rather disagreeable and laborious task to remove the hot and steaming clothes from the boiler. Some times a stick or the hands are used, and at other times the boiler is allowed to cooloii' which means delay 1n wringing the clothes.

My invention aims to facilitate removing clothes from a wash boiler by providing'a boiler attachment which may be easily and quickly installed and safely manipulated for elevating and discharging boiled clothes relative to the wash boiler. The attachment is in the form of a cage or foraminous clothes container which is normally suspended in the wash boiler and by virtue of a novel leverage mechanism the cage can be elevated, to permit of water draining from the clothes, and then tilted whereby the clothes may be easily obtained or discharged at the side of the clothes boiler.

My invention will be hereinafter specifically described and then claimed, and reference will now be had to the drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a plan of the wash boiler attachment;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of a portion of a wash boiler provided with the attachment, which is partly in elevation and partly in section;

Fig. 3 is a vertical cross sectional view of the same;

Fig. a is an end view of the attachment showing the clothes container in a raised and tilted position relative to a wash boiler;

Fig. 5 is an enlarged end view of a portion of the tilting mechanism of the attachment;

Fig. 6 is horizontal sectional view taken on the line VI-JTI of Fig. 5, and

Fig. 7 is an enlarged cross sectional view taken on the line VII-VII of Fig. 2.

The attachment comprises an oval frame 1 having the lower face thereof provided with a groove or channel 2 to receive the chime or upper rolled edge 3 of an ordinary wash boiler 41 The frame 1, at suitable intervals, is provided with depending lugs P and adjustable in said lugs are set screws 5 that may be tightened against the outer wall of the wash boiler to retain the frame on the upper edge of said wash boiler. The lugs iand the screws 5 constitute suitable clamping means by which the attachment may be permanently or temporarily connected to the wash boiler. V, j I

, Mounted on the ends of the frame 1 are vertical guides, each composed of two' opposed arms 6 and 7 forming'a guide-way or slot 8. The arms 6 and 7 of each guide also cooperate in forming a guide-way 9 for a head 10 which forms part of a rim member 11 of a cage, basket or foraminous clothes container 12. There is one, of the heads 10 at each end of the rim member 11 and said rim member may be angular in cross section to provide an inwardly projecting flange 13 on which may be placed the upper edges of the clothes container 12, said clothes container being preferably made of transverse and longitudinally disposed wires suitably connected together at intersections, for instance, by weaving the wires as in the formation of a wire basket, The upper ends of the wires can be connected to a border wire 14 and the border wire may be placed on the inwardly projecting flange or ledge 13 and sprung under clips or protuberances 15 carried by the rim member 11. There are other ways of attaching the rim member 11 to the wire clothes container and other than having a rigid rim member, I do not care to confine my invention to the precise construction of the clothes container shown in the drawings. The heads 10 are provided with depending end members 16 connected by a bottom strap 17 and the transverse wires of the clothes container 12 may be off-set, as at 18, to receive the strap 17 thus somewhat anchoring ing the strap in the central longitudinal vertical plane of the attachment.

The outer faces of the end members 16 are formed with longitudinal ways 19 and at the lower ends of said members are hooks 20 and 21, which will hereinafter be referred to.

Projecting outwardly from the heads 10, through the guide slots 8 of the end guides, are wrist pins 22 to which are pivotally connected the upper ends of links 23, said links having the lower ends thereof pivotally connected, as at 24:, to the arcuated or angular ends 25 of levers 26, said levers being ful crumed or trunnioned on. end pins 27, carried by a web port-ion 28 of the frame 1. The web portion 28 is preferably at the front side of the frame 1 and the forward ends of the lovers 26 are connected by a bar 29. The bar 29 may be made of wood with a metallic chain plate 30 intermediate its ends. A single lever or handle 31 having a hook plate may be placed in engagement with the wear plate 30 of the bar 29 to obtain leverage for easily rocking the levers 26 on the trunnions of the main frame 1. This lever or handle may also be used for lifting clothes from the basket should it be necessary.

On the upper end of each of the guide arms 6 is an inwardly extending stud 33 and these studs are adapted to be engaged by the hooks 20 of the end members 16, as best shown in Figs. 4 and 5, thus establishing a pivotal connection between the end members and the arm 6 so that the clothes container 12 can be tilted or swung to a horizontal position to permit of clothes being discharged therefrom or withdrawn from the container. It is while the clothes container is in this elevated position that water may dr in back into the wash boiler 4i before the clothes are removed from the container 12.

On the upper ends of the guide arms, 7 are can: members or keepers 34 engageable by the hook members 21 of the end members 16. This is also best shown in Figs. l and 5 where it will be noted that the upper ends of the guide arms 6 and 7 will be connected and braced as the clothes assumes a raised and tilted position.

My attachment, with the exception of possibly the bar 29 and the lever 31, is made of metal that will not corrode or material that is finished so as not to corrode or injure any clothes that may contact therewith, and while the attachment has been designed for the conventional shape of wash boiler, it is obvious that the main frame and the clothes container can be of other configurations so as to fit on various kinds of receptacles used for clothes boiling purposes. It is obvious that there may be other uses for my ttachment, therefore I do not care to confine my invention other than defined in the appended claims.

Vi hat I claim is 1. A wash boiler attachment comprising a frame adapted to be mounted on the upper edges of a wash boiler, guides at the ends of said frame, a tiltable foraminous clothes container having ends slidable in said guides and adapted to support said clothes container in the boiler, said guides permitting of said clothes container being elevated and tilted, and a leverage mechanism supported by said frame and attached to the ends of said clothes container adapted for raising and tilting said clothes container.

2. A wash boiler attachment as called for in claim 1, wherein said leverage mechanism includes a set of connected levers pivotall'y supported from a plane above the wash boiler, and links articulating said levers and the ends of said clothes container and adapted to approach the horizontal when the clothes container is tilted.

3. A wash boiler attachment as called for in claim 1, wherein the ends of said clothes container have heads for hooked engagement with portions of said frame for tilting of said clothes container.

4. The combination with a wash boiler, of a frame, attached thereto, a tiltable clothes container suspended from said frame and. adapted to be elevated and tilted in a plane above the wash boiler, and a leverage mechanism attached to said frame and connected to said clothes container adapted for elevating and tilting said clothes container.

5. The combination called for in claim 4, wherein said leverage mechanism includes connected end levers supported'from a plane above the wash boiler, and links connecting said levers to the ends of said clothes container.

6. The combination with a wash boiler, of a frame supported on said wash boiler, a clothes container suspended from said frame and adapted to be elevated and tilted, guides on said frame for said clothes container, means on said clothes container adapted to be. elevated into hooked engagement with portions of said frames for tilting said clothes container, and means carried by said frame to facilitate elevating and tilting said clothes container.

7. The combination called for in claim 6, wherein the last mentioned means includes a leverage mechanism which first causes said container to be raised for clearance relative to said wash boiler and then tilted.

8. A wash boiler attachment comprising sets of guide arms adapted to be fixedly held relative toa wash boiler, a clothes container suspended between said sets of guide arms and adapted tobe elevated and tilted, means adapted for elevatingand tiltingsaid clothes container, and means carried by said clothes container engageable with said sets of guide arms to facilitate tilting of said clothes container.

9. A wash boiler attachment as called for in claim 8 wherein the elevating and tilt ing means includes a leverage mechanism having links connected to the ends of said clothes container.

10. A wash boiler attachment as called for in claim 8, wherein the last mentioned means 1 prevents spreading of the upper ends of the guide arms of each set.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE \V. BLAKE.

Witnesses:

' KARL H. BUTLER, ANNA M. DORR. 

